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good and evil constant, ever changing, or relative

i am mainly talking about morality here... i want this to be more of a discussion among ourselves so here are some questions to discuss. if it is relative to every person than how can good and evil realy exist it would be unexplainable and therefore would not exist, it would be something that we humans made to make us feel better or worse? if it is ever changing then how is it possible to change over time? what is it during our time? how could it possibly be constant? how can any of these be accepted?
  • Relative.
    With the sweets come the sour.
    37%  Voted for by Oral Fixation, petethemeat, Weydon.
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  • Constant
    they are still the same as they were when God established the laws that define them
    Voted for by Dwn.
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  • hmm...
    There is a general good and evil sense when you are thinking about things. To most people rape and robbery are evil or bad things even to those that commit it. There are those cases with wackjobs who have no feeling but there are a few just plain cases where there is an obvious line. Then there is the other things where opinion and such enter in. Abortion, war, that kinda thing. The line there is a little more fuzzy and differs on circumstance. I think that as we as people progress the line gets drawn a little more sloppy but there will always be those ones that are strickly evil in most situations. I'll offer up murder...first thought awful thing. Second thought is what made this person kill? Revenge murder/abuse/self defense. That makes it so that your opinion on it could differ from mine greatly.

    I havent got a clue whether any of that makes sense or if I even touched what you wanted on the post but there ya go!
    Voted for by Stepherz804.
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  • im courious
    why has nobody even commented or anything... im really interested in this topic... and i would like to see it in all angles possible.
    Voted for by pnktrky.
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  • no ever changing?
    its the only one that makes sense when you look at history... at one point it was generally thought that a woman on her period was evil, that God is pleased the blood sacrifices be they animal or human, that the only way to settle old scores where to kill the other. but over the passing of time these are now looked upon in a bad way... almost as if evil. so is good and evil just another institution that changing over time to meet the expectations and general beliefs of the time?
    Voted for by pnktrky.
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  • Epiphenomena
    I think that moralities are essentially the ephiphenomena of other processes and states. For example, strength and energy might tend to lead to a morality of war and sex (as amongst the pre-Socratic Greeks) whereas exhaustion might drive a person or society to Buddhism or Christianity.

    Moralities probably have most, though, to do with evolutionary pressures. Homo Sapiens are weak but clever and, as such, our survival comes about through co-operation and sharing of resources and ideas. However, we still have all the older instincts of aggression and self-assertion.

    In other words I'm with Nietzsche - morality is effect, not cause.

    I guess I'm going with relative and ever changing - though, of course, there are many consistencies due to the general similarities within the species.

    A. H.
    Voted for by Alexander Hine.
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